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📣 We are looking for undergraduate research assistants to come join our team! If you are a UT Austin student with an interest in the news media, democracy and communication, check out the application for this paid position below 👇 bit.ly/33CFj8f

In partnership with the Center for Media Engagement at UT Austin, we are conducting a short survey that we hope can help journalists use more inclusive, humanizing language when reporting on homelessness, incarceration, substance use, and other important issues.

Attending #ica22? Don’t miss these presentations from our Center for Media Engagement researchers: bit.ly/CMEatICA22 Featuring: Jo(sephine) Lukito, @samuelwoolley, Dr. Gina M. Masullo, Phd., Talia Stroud, Dr. Anita Varma, Martin Johannes Riedl, Jessica Collier, PhD, Caroline Murray, & more!

🧵 Though claims of widespread election fraud have been fact-checked & found false, more than half of Republican voters still think Trump likely won in 2020. We conducted in-depth interviews with 56 people who hold this belief. bit.ly/CMEElectionFra… TEXAS Moody

New working paper with Adrian Rauchfleisch: In a survey-experiment, we show that indiscriminate warnings against disinformation increased respondents' perception of disinformation as a dangerous societal threat and carried negative downstream effects. osf.io/preprints/soca…

The term "‘fake news’ exerts disproportionate negative effects on perceptions of news ... controlling for political ideology, compared to ‘misinformation.’ Effects are pronounced when the phrase is used by a politician" Jessica Collier, PhD and Emily Van Duyn find tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…

🚨New Pub in New Media & Society w Jessica Collier, PhD!🚨 We explore why partisans live “in different worlds,” where each side believes different claims to be true.🤔 Find the article here (it’s Open Access): tinyurl.com/msbfrn7w A thread below🧵👇

We know that fact checking articles help correct misperceptions and that quizzes improve memory. So.... quizzing + fact checks = even more accurate beliefs, right? NOPE New paper out today in #psynomCRPI rdcu.be/ddVdv 1/

🧵 Fact-checkers: Adding quizzes to your articles can help people retain key details from your fact check! bit.ly/CMEFactCheckQu… Jessica Collier, PhD Lisa Fazio @pillairaunak